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News And Views - Ratings for the 24th season continue to hover around the 5 million mark. There is no more confirmed news of the movie, though filming is planned to start in the spring... Pip and Jane Baker write in to clarify points on the Rani and episode 14 of Trial of a Time Lord. Reviews - After Image reviews Paradise Towers - "I found the basic plot repetitive and tedious ... where the performances and visuals could have turned the rather weak storyline into something more palatable, they consistently failed." Off The Shelf doubles in length and becomes bi-monthly, with ratings out of ten given. It reviews Mark Harris' Build The TARDIS ("one for the completist only" - 0.5/10), Time and the Rani ("not as bad as the Vervoid "novel" but close]" - 5/10) and The Tribe of Gum script book ("although rather pricey at £2.95, I whole-heartedly recommend this" - 8/10). Notables - Paul Cornell writes a feature giving advice on how to get a script on screen. The results of the 1986 Target Survey given in Off The Shelf are as follows :- The Companions - Harry Sullivan's War Covers - The Seeds of Death, Fury From The Deep, The Celestial Toymaker The Books - Fury From The Deep, The King's Demons, The Seeds of Death Other Regulars - In the last part of the comic strip A Cold Day In Hell!, Frobisher departs and is replaced by Olla the Heat Vampire. It also marks the departure of John Ridgway as the regular artist. Boxpops - Red Dwarf debuts on BBC2 on 15th February. The first televised Comic Relief night is on BBC1 on 5th February. Top of the pop charts in February 88 are the continuing Tiffany and I Should Be So Lucky by Kylie Minogue. Skaro Says - Craig Rollins thinks that it is a bad sign when the writers of a story have to write in to explain it! He watched Red Dwarf from the start, and considered it to be far superior to the pantomime that DW had become. This was the last issue of DWM that he bought for some time - he fell out of interest with the show until the 1992 repeat season. Andrew Curnow also watched Red Dwarf from the beginning, and felt that the first two series without the tarted up special effects were the best. He was sad to see Frobisher leave, and wondered why they bothered with Olla as she was promptly written out! Season 24 really excited him, even more so than the Trial, and it was a great time to be a fan as far as he was concerned. Jon Masters also watched Red Dwarf from the start. He likes the Richard Marson interviews, and feels that his anti-JNT comments were the reason for his departure from the magazine. He feels that it's a dreadful departure for Frobisher, and that this issue has the worst cover ever! Nathan Cooke still thinks that Paradise Towers is a classic. He hated Red Dwarf until the sixth episode, and thought the second series was great. He hated Season 3 onwards though. Jonno didn't watch it until Season 3, which had been previewed in DWB, which by then was covering all types of telefantasy. |
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The Back Page
"Why am I smiling? No one will be looking up here." |
The
Basics - Issue 133, February 1988. The front cover is from Paradise
Towers, and the back cover pin up is of Nicola Bryant.